Extraordinary behaviour from the NUS an organisation infiltrated and clearly controlled by Zionists.
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Extraordinary behaviour from the NUS an organisation infiltrated and clearly controlled by Zionists. Via
Recently, as the Canary previously reported over 70 student officers and almost 120 student groups from across more than 50 campuses in the UK, issued the National Union of Students (NUS) with a letter condemning its silence on Gaza, accusing it of complicity in Israel’s genocide, and demanding it take a decisive stand. Now, the NUS has threatened signatories of the letter with action if they don’t “unsign” it.
At its core, the letter – which was backed by 10 legal, academic and human rights bodies, including ELSC, CAGE UK, BRISMES and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – opposed the use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which equates anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
Adopted by the NUS in 2017, the use of this definition of antisemitism is merely a tactic used to silence those speaking out about Israel’s crimes in the occupied territories, and impede action against its unjust treatment of Palestinians. Even its main drafter, Ken Stern, has described it as ‘a blunt instrument’ that is ‘used to label anyone an antisemite’.
Students have told the Canary that they expected the union to be an agent for justice and solidarity but feel a deep sense of betrayal because it is, instead, an agent of repression.
This could be seen on Friday 18 July, when the NUS leadership wrote to the CEOs of the student unions which signed the letter, demanding that the pro-Palestine sabbatical officers, from universities across the country, remove their signatures from the letter.
These Sabbatical officers – who are elected and employed student representatives and receive a salary – were issued an ultimatum by the NUS: remove their signatures from the letter, or get banned from attending NUS events, including the upcoming Lead and Change national conference, and face the possibility of investigation.
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The NUS leadership made the following claims, among others, in their correspondence with the sabbatical officers:
The letter was ‘antisemitic’ and ‘misinformed’, because it denounced the IHRA definition of antisemitism, the definition the NUS says ‘the vast majority of British Jewish organisations and individuals choose to define the terms of their own oppression’ and the definition that is ‘repeatedly and unanimously voted for by the Union of Jewish Students’ (UJS).
The reality is that the UJS is a pro-Israel lobby group, which gets funding directly from the Israeli embassy, and has been criticised in recent years for its role in attempting to subvert student democracy.
‘There is a dangerous falsehood implied in the letter, that any connection to Israel carries ‘settler-colonial’ and ‘genocidal’ intent or complicity with the current actions of the Israeli government, and this narrative is central to antisemitic tropes…’
However, a recent survey by Professor Tamir Sorek of Pennsylvania State University, and published in Haaretz, found that the vast majority of Israeli Jews-82 percent-do actually back expelling Gazans out of the Strip, and almost 55 percent were ‘very’ supportive of this move.
‘It is entirely possible to be vocal and active on pro-Palestinian liberation without breaching the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and without breaching codes of conduct’.
This statement is ridiculous- there is no way of achieving any justice for Palestine if we pretend Israel has done nothing wrong, and prohibit any criticism of the occupation.
The NUS alleges that by not recognizing the IHRA definition, signatories have violated its Code of Conduct, framing them as antisemitic and justifying bans and sanctions, even if they happen to be Jewish.
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